Directly below, you’ll find both quotes and resource titles that can help you on your singing journey.

If you would like to listen to great singing in the bel canto tradition, please take a look at the list to the right. These are some singers I much admire.

“If the characteristics of a sound the singer wishes to produce are unclear in his own mind, little, if anything can be done to compel him to produce successfully a sound possessing such characteristics.”–Sergius Kagen, On Studying Singing

“Take a breath, and then forget about it.”–Jan Peerce, The Bluebird of Happiness (autobiography)

A Special Thank You

I am a disciple of the world-renowned Cornelius Reid, rediscoverer of the principles of the bel canto tradition. I was also was fortunate to study under the great Elisabeth Parham who was a professor of voice at Oklahoma University, and who guided me to a national award in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions. I will always be grateful to these two teachers who changed my life and made it possible for me not only to be successful as a singer, but also to teach in a way that enables the human voice to be as nature intended, to function correctly and therefore to be beautiful and free.